M hm
»
»v
m :*
?per
Leaders in Hardware
W e w ant to J l t l w h e a t! You can imagine bow we have worked
from the government fo r 'th e for w ^have more provisions than any
H I L L NOT A f t ' S f i i i i to M. Kells. Indians instead of money for their lands. six oil the trail and there is not a party
I hope to be expeditious in traveling here to t what has spent from two to s i x
after we get to Fort Hall. I shall try to hundred each in getting through. A ll ,
letter
of
J
uly
28,
kindly
A n arritg;» Coititi
the six of us will be out about $ioo. We
' Mr. M. E tile publishes go on rapidly If not before.
—frw m lrr S»g
kept the mules until the 8th and packed
M aklth W h it m a n .
pajair
of
August
19,
to
Hr 111 anil
These letters are sufficient answer to them, so we made back all the money
constrained to make an-
t V
W e carry a complete line of Shelf and Heavy
New IvorW ‘
all the trumped up statements that Hr. spent for labor in carrying our equip
ment
over
the
mountain.
Then
we
sold
P ""* *
letter referred to, I stated that Whitman went to Washington to get the
Hardware, making a specialty of Builders’ Sup
leading )
left the company of im- government to take possession of Oregon ; Corbett, Jack and Babe (the mules) for)
the is
plies.
1843 at Fort Hall, and pro or that he gathered, organized or piloted Jico each and the white mule for $50. |
A good line of Heating and Cooking Stoves.
of us in answer to a special the immigration of 1843to thiscountry. We were offered $750 for the three mules
Mr. Kells, sent forward to
I protest against this belittling of the a couple of weeks after we landed but
Anybody wanting the leading plow of the
runners and for t h e 1 honorable record and glorious fame of could not sell them and when we were
through
with
them
there
was
any
,
coast
should buy the Benicia Clipper.
ng in attendance on M r s .. Marcus Whitman by his sell assumed
was anticipating an addition friends, If he has no better friends than amount of horses here, selling for 1
We keep a full line of ammunition, such as
Kells fam ily.”
j such injudicious (lartisaus as Mr. Kells, $10 apiece. When we got our goods
Powder, Shot, Shells, Etc.
Mr. Kells wLo thus sent Indian then :nay the Lord save him from such across the lakes and in three miles of
Linderman we bought to mules for $100,
i live hundred miles to take Dr. friends.
itrnau away from tie; company of
Dr. Whitman came 10 Oregon under a made $90 packing for others and sold
im m igrants, was the father of the Mr. solemn vow to teach and labor for the the animals for $150. I was the one left
K ells who now writes the letter referred Indians. 1 believe he religiously kept to do the packing, all the others having
to, and the author of the present Eells' that vow until stricken down by the gone on to build the boats. We h a v e one
HAIN STREET.
letter was the “ additiou made to the brutal savage he sought to bless. But boat doue and tlle other w il> begon e by 1
i fam ily” at that former time. It is this Nixon, Kells A Co., party which the l6tb> 80 the l8th we sail if we h a v e j
; surprising that the present wnu^d make out th at Dr. W hitm an | no bad luck- It has not frozen any to 1
i should entertain a grateful re- gathered up and brought the immigra- speak of yet but there has been a drizzling ;
[ for the man whose kindly offices tion of 1843 to Oregon to save it from the rain most all the time. Sometimes the j
1 him into this w orld; for it would British, puts W hitman in the position sun comes out for four or five hours, and
indeed that would not of a traitor to his Indian charges. Dr. how nice it is too. T. C. is getting along
i of the bridge that bore W hitm an knew as everybody knew that finely, works like a trooper and only
the pioneers of Missouri and other west weighs 175.
There was a young fellow from Lake
having just got into this ern states, did not respect Indian titles
90 cent B O Y S ’ S W E A T E R S 67 cents
______, _____nigration of 1843 reached to lands and did not believe that Indians Bennett who came out the Skaguay
trail
that
slept
in
the
tent
w
i’
h
me
last
85 cent W O O L Undershirt
63 cents
Oregon, and not being from among them could to christianized and civilized in
entitled to sign himself an im school houses. That immigration came night and it must be a fright from what
Large Bottle Vaseline
5 cents
m igran t of 1843, as he does; for he did with all their worldly goods, their rifles he says. People that have plenty of
40x20
Huck
towel
9 cents
mot emigrate to Oregon and hail no voice on their shoulders, and they did not in money are just getting through, having
paid
one
dollar
a
pound
for
packing
34x15
Htick
towel
7 cents
in eotning here. Mr. KellB knows noth tend to purchase lands of the Indians.
in g about, what he writes about and has The settlement and occupation of the their provisions and jo u have got to
nothing hut hearsay for his statements. country by a largo body of people, in have a fortune at that rate. He says a
These are Only Pointers to our Many Bargains.
H e also quotes John Zachary and Wm. tend only on the pursuits of agriculture, good horse will last one trip and an 1
In one
W aldo in proof of the alleged represen in advance of the purchase of the Indian extra fine one m »y stand two.
tations by Whitmun to induce immigra title by the government was tound to pile he counted 67 dead hoises and there j
tion in 1843; hut these men were in 1843 bring on trouble if not extinction of the were numerous piles o f ten to twenty.
i toys, not over ten years of age Indian missions. And so the sequel And this is all true too for every one
to mistaken entirely in proved. Dr. W hitm an knew that such who comes through tells the same story.
state about matters which would be the case and hence we see Packing rates here have been up to 42
• did not interest to y s of that from the above letter to his brother that cents a pound but are now 35 and lots of
he w ent to Washington to get wheat and people are coming. So far only two
i of the “ W i itman saved stock “ for the Indians” and not money horses and one mule have been killed on
take a rather so- to purchase their lands for white settlers. this trail and those by accident. Of
to prove their case. There
Dr. Whitman eonld not be and w as not course this trail is no paradise but it is a 1
of them all to ld ; and recreant to his duty to tLe Indians and macadam road to the other one.
Flour is selling at {25 a sack, bacon
ere assertions us to what lie nove^ urged the settlem ent of Oregon
■ by quoting each other ns by the Americans. He no doubt wrote Co cer Is a pound here and quite a few
if those who do not be- letters diseriptive of this country but no are selling out and going back. E ight
i saved 1 Oregon should letter of bis hns ever been produced urg een sheep came in yesterday and I got
style of re atoning, ing the settlementsof Ib is country. The $56 for killing them. I forgot totell you
note several hundred pamphlet alleged to have been issued by that during that storm twenty boats were
over the plains in him about this country is all humbug. wrecked on Lake Linderman and three
these partisans of If he had ever issued such a document lives lost. A fellow came to camp Sun
savior idea, don’t stop he would have left sonic at the depart day with 80 pounds o f gold. He had
ions reasoning, Iwt boldly ment at Washington or tiled them with just come up from Yukon. We had 60
•that are notoriously the Mission Board in Boston, where pounds of bacon stolen from us last
example there is the ,Kev. they could to seen today if they bad ever night, the first thing we have lost. Quite
a good deal of stealing has been going
rof Divinity Nixon who l as written hud an experience.
: of 400 pages to prove that VVhit-
But tjiis letter is already* too long. 011 but no one caught yet. They make
i Oregon, and as a sample of Oregon was.uat saved by Dr. Whitman quick work with a thief here when they
l facts he asserts that Av L. or any other one man. American rights get him though. One fellow lost his
I-ovejoy (who accompanied W hitm an on to this region was secured by President provisions during the stoim. He had it
his winter trip in 184.’ as far as Fort Jefferson in the Louisiana purch. n: and tied and was sleeping on shore. He
enton) followed Whitman on to St. ho sent Lewis and Clark here in lbu 1 to goes back with a party today. I may
not be able to get a letter out again un
i and “ scattefeitotbo news of the take possession of the country.
migration far and wi<u».y tovejoy hitn- dering Americans drifted in here ffnrn til spring.
d f says that to stoppeiihat Fort Benton time to time down till the date of tjte
-----
—
■ DO miles west of the point where the missions and from that time eva/Vi
W heat In W a sh in g to n .
Tinware of every kind
{
nigration of llfcA left, Missouri and re American coming in here did his part to j
JjfUligl
. W . .'T s m k g , W a s h ., O c t.,4,
tteli therqJuntil spring, and tlien settle and estahllshd the country u m lw j H im 1 o r IJ, t c h e t :
«(aim
wet a . over to Fort Laram ie and joined the stars and ’ stripes. If the settlement
F a rm « * „• th e Willamette v n lb v
the immigration caravan and came took of this country had iepended on \ h e very je c e f s lly
_ ____
presume, have their
w ith i t to O r e g o n , n e v e r h a v in g g o n e t o s u c c e s s o f t h e M is s io n a r ie s sent here,
crop£>»nw *fct<4^ moused. Not so ntli
the states at qU, Now if Dr. Nixon will then to the great hearted, noble minded,
the people 01 L ast aU W a v n. on in
B . F . B L O O D . l*i o p .
solemnly asseiVin a book written to never to to forgotten John M. Laughlin, this portioi e f the state hw *=• is 1 ,rac-
prove his case, suHt a falsehood as that, a subject of Queen Victoria, more than tically over bl#t to the now*
east
what m ay we expoet o< others not as to any other one man was the success of
grain is much latbr ripetii ij
’jw pilose
great as he is.
V N,
our immigration indebted. Dr. W hit sections where la tore - .
go o u ch
But w hile Mr. Kells duini« that Dr er»» acted nobly and bravely his part
needed, men are rushfitg b jflA ir 1 n - !
W hitm an had ititi his mind to go nick ■ a. ever faltered in the line ofliis duty
HORSE SHOEING AND MACHINE WORK A SPECIALTY
dreds, the scarcity of tu>1. fttHfc'» is
to Washington in 1842 tq,. Bava ,!d«
rs a c te d t h e i r parts equally well j greatest drawback, w h ile :;h« to ufaer is
country from the British, he did ndv » 41 , „ I * ’ ild not to forgotten.
about the same as iti form er years. The
W
ork Wnrrflntpd
New Double Shop Opposite
anybody, or at least a very selh ^ few , • f j
VV U I K
vv d i I ell l i e u
Boos’ Store, Main Street
A l m o k a x H i l l , ’4 3 .
crop itself i vastly larger. .With many
the object of bis trip. He would ‘ here i
the situation is ndst , serious, with no
tit Dr. W hitm an us g
ft Forest Drove machines of their owjn they simply have
do good by stualth, unit
T.
t August sa>‘ - 1 to wajt and liow lon(^ they do not know,
it fam e.” 1 don’t.MHevfl Dr
on one
the early trips o f 0wucrs Qf Uirts,..erfc wij, Bot take a
any such a ^ o w .rd or
v ’ ust written
w
back a newsy | sma„ jo b whUe 1#,L e 0^ s are in slght
riences there which
.
The regular p r k -jl o f threshing is 5 4
above-toiyd In all his act
here
their fam ily is here , ln d „^ e n t^ aom. art charging 7 cents Is a g a in open a t th e old stand and in v ites the patronage of all w ho de-
courageous % a n .
>ys are members of a party
rriy^ H raM ra n -j is reported where
sire the finest grades at fair prices.
written testimon
pushed on rapidly and
famfer
its to have his crop o f j
shows that he
firat iu the gold re- 3000 bm
sacks, it took the
1843 for a
•
*3 machí
1 day to do the work. ^
Whitman
Many
ftska.
'«7-
:>>qW. who lla^e from one
wrote the
hyte, have a e- to
l -ht »hels to thresh are
and sent it1
and also a t Dyea h u <1 r id i
m er and oveV\ trying
people on the Skagway to r
whe they cau expect a
through ^t all and now nial
»Mbit, f possible is being
ng this wajptftut we are
* I d o t è p t o s a v e ’t l i i s '*1 he greatest cipp the
T h e Country affords, in Great
of them, *0 we are out t# th e j country lias . ver
pdt. -ed . Last week
•
•
•
•
•
\ ariety and at M oderate Prices
ere far ahead o f anpr 'iic else1
*Wt t o O . R. & |ll. Cc s.'jip'i. d ten strainers
A GENERAL SHIPPING BUSINESS
•»Mine is do- w i t f a h e i r c r e w s , ’ ■ Hi *’f charge, from
WHOLESALE AND RETJ*£,
_
Will spend about I the
week ao that we cun get started where tlfey are
Done in A ll K in d s o f Dressed P oultry, F at H ogs,
making >15 to j 2J , will not b ^ ttc o jffz t Hunt the harves t [S p r in g \ a m ! ) ^ I t D ^ ^ ! u ! a l ^ s B
T. C; nought ahorse is over which w ill tmV f l at Li s t three
’
aftar he ]{ot off the boat four weeks yet. Tha to tfk >f hauling to
BUYER AND SELLER,
an hour later for ( 150. market has hardly
many »ho ■
H ig h e s t cash p rice p a id H
for one-year-old steers and steer calves.
on the way here, her have their grain u- a a % ^ now b
W l i l J.’ i i t r , | V t ;
v , v ,
broken hy getting ing their less fortunate t ffg
s.
4 ,1 n v
N n ’ Farm w c.
|
FO REST G RO VE
— |— -U — .hot. I The amount of dW n that
» nlt“’ oru*. ted here > hauled is already ewaii 'ing
steal- roads, at every station he
ate all full and sacha ar< pi - d
AS once said by an observer to be the ¡3
the outside.
« ■
grandest Sight in the world. »A nobler
la at hand.« Man' fart- m i ' I
sight than that, ’ replied 2 triend to him
.-OA .1 » hi«!, price
ád
”isa father and con walking arm-in-
»rm as it they were .. 'iv comrades.” U
both be dressed in
* taste the charm
of the pictuie is intei tied. Many men of
good taste in over 7/ »* American cities 1
and tow ns now tiet Sai
SAV E OREGON7
DEMPSEY & KANE
D em psey & K a n e
T H E BAZAR . . .
. . . POINTERS IN PRICES
N EW
P O IN T E R S E A C H
W EEK
THE LEADING TINNER
Air Tight Stoves Saves Half the Wood
Forest Grove Machine Shop .
GENERAL BLACKSM11H AND MACHINIST
Suvl
McNAMUR'S
MEAT
MARKET
In Charge of John McNamer
The Best of
Meats, Sausages,
Fish and Poultry
i A
S h ip
irv
full
S a YÎT ï
J
H
l i
THE SHASTA RO
OF THE
SOUTHERN PACIRC
Exp ose Trains L e a ve
land Daily.
LAND AND SAX
FttANClÄCo
And..........6:C0 p. m
Arrive—
Rn fonetico
*>. rancisco8:00 p, m 7.
Portland... J
train s stop
."»'.'
Pi land and Salem , T urn er"
m . om
. ; : i .
Albany, Albany Ju nction , Tani»n?l
H soy, H arrisburg, Ju nction Cltv t , . J
e ie, Drains, O akland and all ai.tï',1
B seburg to A shland inclusive.
it
R03KBURU MAIL DAILY
Arrive-
Koseburg..
Portland..
Leave—
o rtla n d ... .8:30 a ,m
toseb u rg .. ...7:30 a. m
DINING C A R S on OGDEN R(j
PULLMAN
BUFFET
SLEE
AND
SECOND-CLASS SLEEPING
A ttached to a ll through trains. 1
W est S id e Division.
B etw ken
P o rtla n d
and
C or I
MAIL T R A I N D A I L Y ( I X C K P T »UNDlJ
: 7:30 a.m I Lv
Portland
Arl
9:1 0 a .m I I.v
F o rest Grove
Lvl
: 15 p.m | t r
C orvallis
lt
At Albany and Corvallis .........
wild
ol the Oregon C en tral A Eastern rail ret,
K X P K X 8 8 T R A I N D A I L Y (K XCtPT I
4:50 p m | I.v
6:29 p.m | I.v
7:30 p. i I Ar
Portland
F o rest Grove
M cM inville
Arl
L t
Lv |
D irect co n n ectio n at San Francisco«
dental and O rien tal and Pacific mall i
lines for JAPAN and CHINA. Sailingd
application.
Kates and ticketa to Eastern poind
Europe. Also Ja p a n , China, Honouli
A u stralia, c a n b e ob tain ed from w. T.|
Ageut, Forest Grove.
C. If. MAHKH.J
Asst. G. K. A P.l
R. K O EH L ER
M anager
Por
n rtian d. Oregon.
Ripans Tabules: at d ru g g ists.
R i p a n s Tabules c u r e headache.
R i p a n s Tabules c u r e b a d brei
One year ago last Fcbr
I was taken down with >c|
Rheumatism. I finally
to resort to crutches. 11
fered excruciating pain]
1 took Vitae Ore and am
¡out pain, and can sleepasl
as I ever could. My kidj
were very bad and both!
me very much, and that i|
removed. I now feel as
as I ever did.
You can inquire of anyl
iness man in town and he |
I tell you the same as I
¡ said in regard to my
| tions. I w ill publish
testimonials that reside in *
gon soon for the good ol
human fam ily.
I keep Vitae Ore on lid
Try it. It cured me, anl
will cure you if you use it I
cording to directions.
NELSON L a COURSE
General
Forest Grove, Or
AGENTS WANTED.
Taken in time, Vitae Ore in an inlj
ble cure lor diphtheria.
[Mr. La Coumc is personally kn
to me as a reliable man, and the stm
his suffering and cure is well-kno*J
the citizens of this community toh*|
— Editor.]
K. WATERS.
W ATERS &
BAN!
p ao raiR T O K S
.0
op
Feed Chopping m
C H O P P IN G O N xHL’ K SD A l
CI STOM G R IN D IN G A SI’ECIALTYJ
D E A L E R S IN
Hay, (irain and a ll kin d s »if Flour
Land M aster, Seeds, Rock S alt. *>acks and ^
T w ine.
Wood sawin** done as cheap as the cheap*
Goods delivered in any part of city,
F O R E ST G R O V E ,
-
*
'
oRfiG
The» G rain iest Remedy.
Mr. U. B. (»reeve, merchant, o f11
howie, V a., certifies that he haJ<
sumption, was given up to die,
ail medical treatment that nionry 01
procure, trie,l all cough reme«**l
• ixil l hear of, hot got no rel
many nights sitting up in a 1
JMOvercoaUirom
mdnce,l to try D r iv in g 's Ne*'
and «as cured by the use ®f t * 1’ 1
T t o G reat Chicago i -rchaot Tailors. ! k "r j'ast three years ha«'been attsw’
. S o n s a n d Fatl-.-r- n -
o’ business, and says Dy.
equally sure »0 tft '
pleased. No po. .r vr -v~ S'o
« '» fits . N o tn fe . '
Discovery’ is the grandest
go o d s. N o e x a f b t o u t
pricas. No e ts '
made, as it has done so much 1
E ver) body f „ l¡ <stta«ai,
and also for others in his corah
, n d FINISH G U A R a n t f r i x
d«f. K ing’s New Discovery
h r COO '¡.o le o r . a ^ A T F E D ’
^
O irifi irn*
> “,r
< olds a..rl <
O A L l CTJ
ït4 n e -.\ j.iL -1
a-»
« M. BORN &. CO.,
mt ulcers anil
dtougii of manv
'■ i ennxI hy using
izei SaUe.
It
toa a.
SOI]
VIA